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Welcome to the official Lemmy.world Support community! Post your issues or questions about Lemmy.world here.

This community is for issues related to the Lemmy World instance only. For Lemmy software requests or bug reports, please go to the Lemmy github page.

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So what exactly the relationship between lemmy.world and mastodon? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Is it the same group? Or what's going on?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Mastodon is a twitter-alike software that can be deployed on different servers. So everybody who wants to, and has a shiny domain, can run said software…

Lemmy is a reddit-alike software that can be deployed on different servers. So everybody who wants to, and has a shiny domain, can run said software…

Often they choose subdomains like lemmy.example.com and mastodon.example.com . However, lemmy and mastodon share a same communications protocol. Thats why they are in parts compatible…

You can basically be on your mastodon server and then some lemmy content shows up.

The operator of mastodon.world choose to share a lemmy installation via lemmy.world.